Crime in Scotland 1660-1960 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crime in Scotland 1660-1960 write by Anne-Marie Kilday. This book was released on 2018-09-20. Crime in Scotland 1660-1960 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scotland has often been regarded throughout history as "the violent north", but how true is this statement? Does Scotland deserve to be defined thus, and upon what foundations is this definition based? This book examines the history of crime in Scotland, questioning the labelling of Scotland as home to a violent culture and examining changes in violent behaviour over time, the role of religion on violence, how gender impacted on violence and how the level of Scottish violence fares when compared to incidents of violence throughout the rest of the UK. This book offers a ground-breaking contribution to the historiography of Scottish crime. Not only does the piece illuminate for the first time, the nature and incidence of Scottish criminality over the course of some three hundred years, but it also employs a more integrated analysis of gender than has hitherto been evident. This book sheds light on whether the stereotypical label given to Scotland as 'the violent north' is appropriate or in any way accurate, and it further contributes to our understanding of not only Scottish society, but of the history of crime and punishment in the British Isles and beyond.
Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland
Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland write by Louise Heren. This book was released on 2023-10-05. Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using case records of prosecutions at the Scottish High Court of Justiciary between 1918 and 1930, this book takes a quantitative and qualitative approach to understand sexual violence in Scotland at this time. Analysing legal records alongside victim and witness testimonies, Louise Heren analyses who committed sexual violence against whom, where and how and, to an extent, looks to uncover the victims' voice. Assessing how the courts responded, Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland reveals that, despite pejorative views of working-class female behaviour, the successful conversion of prosecutions to convictions was greater than what is seen in modern sexual assault cases. In a society adjusting to post-conflict stresses, there were fears expressed in middle-class circles that those most affected by the First World War might react with violence. However, the High Court archives suggest otherwise. Cases of incest, rape and sexual assault appears to have been endemic, an opportunistic crime against older victims yet often pre-meditated against the youngest; selfish crimes that suggest toxic masculinity among some working-class men. The book concludes with the ultimate question: why did these men perpetrate sexual violence?
Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000
Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000 write by W.W.J. Knox. This book was released on 2021-05-03. Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book attempts to cover all the important aspects of a woman’s life in Scotland, examining how and why it changed over the last 300 years. It walks us through the day-to-day existence of Scottish women and in doing so covers areas such as family and household, education, work and politics, religion and sexuality, crime and punishment. While sensitive to the differences among women, regarding colour, class and sexuality, the book seeks to establish a close and reciprocal relationship between women’s history and gender history; the first delineating the struggles of women for parity with men in economic, legal and political spheres; the second, as means of unravelling the continuing ways in which power is unequally distributed within the home, the workplace and in institutions, and in contesting the male-centred narratives of the past.
Beyond Deviant Damsels
Beyond Deviant Damsels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Deviant Damsels write by Anne-Marie Kilday. This book was released on 2023-03. Beyond Deviant Damsels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using detailed case studies, Beyond Deviant Damsels undermines many of the conventional assumptions about how women committed crime in the nineteenth century. Previous historical accounts generally constructed gendered stereotypes of women acting in self-defence, being lesser accomplices to male criminals, committing crimes that require little or no physical effort, or pursuing supposedly 'female' goals (such as material acquisition). This study countersthese gendered assumptions by examining instances where women tested society's boundaries through their own actions, ultimately presenting women as far more like men in their capacity and execution of criminal behaviour. The book shows examples where women acted far beyond these stereotypes, and showcases theexistence of cultural discussion of open-ended female misbehaviour in Victorian Britain - leading us to question the very role of stereotyping in the history of criminality. These individual challenges to a supposed gendered status quo in Victorian Britain did not produce spontaneous outrage, nor were attempts at controlling and eradicating such behaviour coherent or successful. As such Victorian society's treatment of women emerges as uncertain and confused as much as it was determinedlymoralistic. From this, Beyond Deviant Damsels seeks to re-evaluate our twenty-first-century perception of female criminals, by indicating that historiography may have been responsible for limiting the picture of Victorian female criminality and behaviour from that time until the present.
The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence
The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence write by Stacy Banwell. This book was released on 2023-08-02. The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grounded in feminist scholarship, this book upends normative accounts of femme fatale violence to focus beyond the misogyny and the sensationalism and unearth the motivation behind women's roles in homicide, terrorism, combat, and even nationalist movements.
